Recent Blog Posts
Can Degrading & Humiliating Conduct Create A Sexual Hostile Work Environment?
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (Title VII), employees are protected from sexual harassing behavior which is sufficiently severe or pervasive to discriminatorily alter the conditions of the victim’s employment and create a hostile work environment. In determining whether the harassment was sufficiently severe or pervasive to create an abusive working environment,… Read More »
Alleged Gender-Based Discrimination In The Workplace: Employer Just Wants To Pay Fine
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits discrimination in compensation against any individual on the basis of sex. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which is part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, also prohibits sex-based discrimination in compensation. Generally, employer actions that give rise to… Read More »
Employer Allegedly Solicited A Coworker Complaint Against Employee In Retaliation For Complaining About Race Discrimination
Federal and Florida employment discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Florida Civil Rights Act, protect employees against retaliation when they complain about discrimination in the workplace. Federal and Florida employment discrimination laws prohibit retaliation because… Read More »
Court Rules That Employee’s Tying A Rope Into A Noose Can Create A Racial Hostile Work Environment
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) prohibit employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of race. Although Title VII and the FCRA do not mention racial harassment, courts have uniformly held that racial harassment is a form of race discrimination prohibited… Read More »
Can Employers Demote A Pregnant Employee So She Can Spend More Time With Her Newborn Child?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), forbids employers from discriminating against employees on the on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. Under the PDA, as explained by the U.S. Supreme Court in UAW v. Johnson Controls,… Read More »
Manager Harboring Bias Against Women Tells Female Employee He “Was Never Going To” Promote Her To A Supervisory Position
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to promote an employee on the basis of sex. Having represented victims of employment discrimination for almost twenty years, our Marion County, Florida gender discrimination attorneys have learned that female… Read More »
Are Employees Protected From Sexual Harassment Following A Failed Relationship?
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). As observed by the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Gross v. Burggraf Construction Co., 53 F.3d 1531 (10th Cir. 1995), sexual harassment is behavior “that would not occur but for the… Read More »
Does Sex Discrimination Exist When An Employer Fires A Female Employee But Not Male Employees Who Engage In The Same Misconduct?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex. Having represented employees victimized by sex discrimination for almost twenty years, our Marion County, Florida sex discrimination attorneys have learned that sex discrimination most often occurs when employers treat an employee differently… Read More »
Is An Employer’s Failure To Comply With Its Own Anti-Discrimination Policy Evidence Of National Origin Discrimination?
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), employees are protected from discrimination on the basis of national origin and race. In Espinoza v. Farah Manufacturing Company., Inc., 414 U.S. 86 (1973), the U.S. Supreme Court defined a national origin as the “country where a person was born, or, more… Read More »
Are A Sexual Harasser’s Threats Of Physical Harm Part Of A Victim’s Hostile Work Environment?
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), sexual harassment that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to discriminatorily alter the conditions of a victim’s employment and create a hostile working environment is an unlawful employment practice. In Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., 510 U.S. 17 (1993), the U.S. Supreme Court… Read More »
